knit 'n lit

Pattern: Playful Penguins from Fiber Trends Yarn: Brown Sheep Nature Spun Sport, some black fun fur, leftover Lovely for the hat and scarf. ...

Last night, after surviving the first day back to school, I got down to brass tacks and started my holiday crafting. This is an entirely dif...

This week, some projects were nearly finished. And others were barely started. There is more, but much of it is secret, so I can't show ...

Pattern: Generic top-down sock over 72 stitches Needles: ChiaGoo sz 2.25mm dpns Yarn: Trekking XXL Mods: none Thoughts: love the colors. The...

Pattern: Basketweave Pullover from a pattern leaflet mom sent me (I don't have it handy to look up - I'll try to find it.) Yarn: Man...

See? There has been knitting! I'm through with the body of Wicked, now I just need two sleeves (and yes, I'm making long sleeves, ...

Prepare yourselves: I've ripped some projects. Still breathing? OK. Last Sunday, with my extra hour, I ripped. Ripped and ripped and rip...

I have a problem. When I knit socks, I get stuck in the gusset. For some reason, all those extra stitches slow me down considerably. I had s...

I had a delightful surprise last week - Jillian over at Sknitty posted about the haul she got from a new yarn shop. I hopped on over to che...

These are real finished knits you are about to see. Pattern: Bottle Cozy from Yarns Ewenique Yarn:Cascade Fixation Needles: sz 6 Chiagoo DPN...

Madelinetosh in Bullion, Socks that Rock in Lenore.

For all my talk last week, I've managed to finish nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Zero. I'm still close to finishing a few (and may actua...

While I'm trying to be "good" this week and not start any new projects, this clearly wasn't a priority last week. The begi...

The high today is 55. Good thing I have new socks to wear! Pattern: Generic top-down over 64 stitches Yarn: ONline cotton Needles: 2.5mm Bri...

Fall briefly ran by on Monday and Tuesday, bringing terrible thunderstorms, and cool enough weather for wool socks and handknit sweaters. To...

By some miracle, I managed to finish these up before bed on our anniversary Tuesday. Whew! Pattern: Generic stockinette sock - top down, ove...

We all have seen how I dealt with the kitchen stress this summer. School stress has been at severe levels for the past two weeks or so (r...

Home from the yarn crawl/shop hop, and moderately caught up with school work, so here's a quick look at my goodies from the weekend. We ...

After a spectacularly awful week, I'm looking forward to running away for the weekend to the Hill Country Shop Hop. Lots of knitters on ...

It's not all socks around here these days - several scarves have jumped on the needles this past week. Out of the frogged Claudia's ...